RE: The Digital Battlefield

> This sort of thing has been done for some of the PBEM games, see 
> 
> http://scivax.stsci.edu/~kochte/ftgame.html
> 
Nice aint it ?
> 
> For a good example of this. The programs used to create these maps
were 
> different but the best (because its free) is the one written by Alun
Thomas 
> which is freeware if you have a C compiler. It only runs on unix
systems but 
> hasn't been ported to Win95 or NT or Mac yet, I intend to do so
(intel) when I 
> get my C compiler.

Can anyone give me an address where I can get Alun's program as I have
access to both unix and windows and would love to try something like
this.
I am working on A Visual Basic Program to work out movement, so with a
bit
of work this could be made to accept an emailed input...

-Michael Hodgson